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Religious stories in transformation: conflict, revision and reception / edited by Alberdina Houtman, Tamar Kadari, Marcel Poorthuis and Vered Tohar.

Contributor(s): Houtman, Alberdina [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish and Christian perspectives series: v. 31.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xi, 486 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004335127; 9004335129Subject(s): Bible -- Legends | Jewish legends | Storytelling -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 296.1/9 LOC classification: BM530 | .R45 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Storytelling and meaning: Theory and practice of narrative variants in religious texts / Eli Yassif -- Transformations of ancient creation myths: -- The Adamic myth from Canaan / Marjo Korpel -- The development of the Adamic myth in Genesis Rabbah / Alberdina Houtman -- First man, first twins: The origins of humankind in Zoroastrian thought / Albert de Jong -- The fall of Iblis and its Enochic background / Tommaso Tesei -- Interreligious aspects in the narrative of the burial of Adam in 'Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer / Adiel Kadari -- Transformation of Biblical stories: -- Aggadic motifs in the story of Jonah: A study of interaction between religions / Tamar Kadari -- Jewish legal practice and piety in the Acts of Apostles: apologetics or identity marker / Eyal Regev -- Bound in righteousness: variances and versions of the Aqedah story in Jewish hymnography (Piyyut) / Wout van Bekkum -- The Biblical stories about the Prophet Elijah in early-Syriac-speaking Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Sürat Yüsuf (XII) and some of its possible Jewish sources / Meir Bar-Ilan -- Transformations of para-biblical stories: -- The well of Miriam and its mythological forebears / Jan Willem can den Bosch -- Bethlehem and the birth of the Messiah in the eyes of Byzantine Jewish storyteller: rebuke or consolation / Paul Mandel -- The infallibility of the prophets and the fallible Jesus in Islam: On the transformation of a Jewish story into an Islamic anti-Christian polemic / Marcel Poorthuis -- On marrying and divorcing a demon: Marriage and divorce themes in the Jewish, Christian, and pagan world / Margaretha Folmer -- Ascension traditions in Jerusalem / Michael Ehrlich -- Waiting for the harvest: trajectories of Rabbinic and "Christian" parables / Eric Ottenheijm -- Transformations of stories in modernity: -- Reading Chad Gadya through the kaleidescope of time / Meir Seidler -- Zemah Zaddik by Leon of Modena: between two worlds / Vered Tohar -- "We do not pray, we invent: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish mysticism in the video game 'Wolfenstein: The New Order" / Frank G. Bosman and Leon Mock -- Power women: the retelling of sacred narratives in an interreligious context / G.M. Speelman -- Part 5: -- Transformations of stories in art: -- Biblical murals in medieval Frisian churches / Gert van Klinken -- Sinai - the mountain of God / Shulamit Laderman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Storytelling and meaning: Theory and practice of narrative variants in religious texts / Eli Yassif -- Part I: -- Transformations of ancient creation myths: -- The Adamic myth from Canaan / Marjo Korpel -- The development of the Adamic myth in Genesis Rabbah / Alberdina Houtman -- First man, first twins: The origins of humankind in Zoroastrian thought / Albert de Jong -- The fall of Iblis and its Enochic background / Tommaso Tesei -- Interreligious aspects in the narrative of the burial of Adam in 'Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer / Adiel Kadari -- Part II: -- Transformation of Biblical stories: -- Aggadic motifs in the story of Jonah: A study of interaction between religions / Tamar Kadari -- Jewish legal practice and piety in the Acts of Apostles: apologetics or identity marker / Eyal Regev -- Bound in righteousness: variances and versions of the Aqedah story in Jewish hymnography (Piyyut) / Wout van Bekkum -- The Biblical stories about the Prophet Elijah in early-Syriac-speaking Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Sürat Yüsuf (XII) and some of its possible Jewish sources / Meir Bar-Ilan -- Part 3: -- Transformations of para-biblical stories: -- The well of Miriam and its mythological forebears / Jan Willem can den Bosch -- Bethlehem and the birth of the Messiah in the eyes of Byzantine Jewish storyteller: rebuke or consolation / Paul Mandel -- The infallibility of the prophets and the fallible Jesus in Islam: On the transformation of a Jewish story into an Islamic anti-Christian polemic / Marcel Poorthuis -- On marrying and divorcing a demon: Marriage and divorce themes in the Jewish, Christian, and pagan world / Margaretha Folmer -- Ascension traditions in Jerusalem / Michael Ehrlich -- Waiting for the harvest: trajectories of Rabbinic and "Christian" parables / Eric Ottenheijm -- Part 4: -- Transformations of stories in modernity: -- Reading Chad Gadya through the kaleidescope of time / Meir Seidler -- Zemah Zaddik by Leon of Modena: between two worlds / Vered Tohar -- "We do not pray, we invent: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish mysticism in the video game 'Wolfenstein: The New Order" / Frank G. Bosman and Leon Mock -- Power women: the retelling of sacred narratives in an interreligious context / G.M. Speelman -- Part 5: -- Transformations of stories in art: -- Biblical murals in medieval Frisian churches / Gert van Klinken -- Sinai - the mountain of God / Shulamit Laderman.

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